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Date:      Wed, 03 Jan 2001 15:33:39 -0500
From:      csg@waterspout.com (C. Stephen Gunn)
To:        Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, wes@softweyr.com
Subject:   Re: Problems with VLAN and natd. 
Message-ID:  <200101032028.PAA71628@tsunami.waterspout.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:26:21 EST." <Pine.BSO.4.10.10101031218370.25327-100000@spider.pilosoft.com> 

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On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:26:21 EST, Alex Pilosov wrote:

> Sometimes in the course of human events it is necessary to break with
> compatibility ;) I believe netgraph is sufficiently advanced and well-made
> system that it should be used as much as possible. 

Microsoft might argue the same about Windows.

Someone has to take the counterpoint around here. ;-)

> There's nothing that would prevent OpenBSD people from taking
> netgraph and implementing it. I run OpenBSD, and threw the idea a
> few times on their mailing lists, and response was less than
> enthusiastic...Which lead me to choose FreeBSD for my next networking
> project. :)

We can't _make_ the Linux folks adopt BSD technologies either, but
we continue to jump through hoops for compatability layers in the
BSD variants.  I'm just advocating a search for prior-art, and/or
a friendly design conversation with the other projects _before_
integration into FreeBSD.

 - Steve

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C. Stephen Gunn <csg@waterspout.com>   |   Waterspout Communications, Inc.


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